San Francisco
Subtitle: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination Series)
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781566564892
Subjects: San Francisco; Travel; Popular Culture; California - Local History; United States - Pacific - California; Travel - United States; Social life and customs; San Francisco (Calif.); Popular Culture - General; United States - State & Local - General; United States - West - Pacific (General); American literature; California; City and town life; History; History and criticism
First sentence: In January 1847, when the population of the United States was approaching 23 million and the city of New York held almost 500,000 people, a few hundred souls living on the tip of the hilly, windswept peninsula on the California coast decided to change their settlement's name from Yerba Buena to San Francisco.